When someone dies, sentence 19
Different families and religions believe different things about death: some believe in heaven, some in rebirth, and some that life simply ends.
Who acts: Different families, some, life · What happens: believe, end · To what, where: different things, heaven
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Different families, some, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 religions | cc |
| 4 | religions | religion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 families | conj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heaven | case |
| 14 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believe | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 some | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rebirth | det |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rebirth | case |
| 18 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believe | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 some | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 believe | cc |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 life | det |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 ends | mark |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ends | nsubj |
| 24 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 25 ends | advmod |
| 25 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Different families and religions | different things | about death | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | believe | present | some | heaven | in some rebirth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | end | present | some life | simply property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:19.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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